The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice. — Steven Michael Quezada Copy Share Image
“Do not shy away from the sensations I create, Cherry Blossom. Take pride in them, as I do.” — Red Phoenix Copy Share Image
See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When the winter comes, be very happy; because the spring comes only if the winter comes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again. — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
The best thing about a British winter is the cold weather, real fires, frosty mornings. I love living somewhere that has proper… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to… — Ketzel Levine Copy Share Image
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“I knew by the signs it would be a hard winter. The hollies bore a heavy crop of berries and birds stripped… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
A girl is like a flower... Don't Pick it if you won't take care of it because there will be no other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The seeds of love may sprout where they will, but we choose whether to water them and give them light or to… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread. — William Wendt Copy Share Image
I have a gift... I can tell things that are going to happen by the way the air is. I can tell… — Taylor Hill Copy Share Image
Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse. — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
“The months roll by like wheels on a wheelchair. Pretty soon it’ll be July. Feels like just last month it was May.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“To grow a melody?" "You can't grow a melody on purpose,” she said, and slyly added, “you have to plant an accidental.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be like a cactus that gives beautiful flowers, yet it has sharp thorns that could hurt people if they are not careful… — Ahmed Shahyn Copy Share Image
September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled! — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
